Example sentences of "had [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As agriculture had so near a connection with horticulture therefore he kept at the same time an observant eye on everything which occurred in rural economy , particularly the cultivation of ploughed lands . |
| 2 | Ignoring the suddenly bright gleam in his eyes , she bent and grabbed the hem of her shift , tearing the flimsy material easily until she had enough for a bandage . |
| 3 | ‘ After paying for the carpet we still had enough for a small celebration . ’ |
| 4 | She would hardly have been able to get as far as she had already without a very strong image of the outlines of the world , of her own personal dream . |
| 5 | Certainly there would have been no satisfaction in such behaviour if the would-be escaper had not for a time at any rate believed in himself |
| 6 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 7 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 8 | I just had just over a pound |
| 9 | She might never have ironed shirts , but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises , little presents . |
| 10 | Habitually a somewhat forgetful person , I had also for a couple of days been trying to remember the name of the director of the film Such Good Friends . |
| 11 | She was different , after all , he decided , in her hat , and with the grained leather gloves neatly folded , and Gaily had n't for a moment the wit to see this , prepared self as the false one and her accidental self , in an older coat and head-scarf , of Saturday night , the true one . |
| 12 | Nor can it be had simply as a possession : it must be ‘ leapt into ’ repeatedly and afresh . |
| 13 | They only come to the surface after dark , and so you 'd never know you had then without a torch . |
| 14 | On the few occasions when she had been compelled to enter the water , she had stayed in the very shallowest part of the pool and had never for a moment released her grip on the handrail . |
| 15 | She had always disliked them , had never for a moment been able to see their virtues ; she had been bored by the classical , and had felt a positive , righteous contempt for the baroque and the neo-Gothic . |